Janet Weiss - Susan Sarandon! For some reason this girl sleeps with everyone except her fiancee'.

Columbia - Freak groupie, she has a voice that can reach well into the "really annoying" range. Zapped by Riff Raff.

Rocky Horror - Blonde, muscled, moron created by Frankie to satisfy his sexual urges - he needed to make about a dozen more it seems. Zapped by Riff Raff.

Dr. Scott - Wheelchair bound friend and mentor to Brad and Janet.

Criminologist - Our narrator. You will notice the distinct lack of tissue connecting his head and torso.

Eddie - Meatloaf! Previously one of Frankie's lovers; upon making a reappearance he is greeted with a pickax.

The Plot:

Let us get this right from the start, here is probably the best known cult movie of all time. For almost twenty-five years people have been enjoying the debauchery and it is not going to stop anytime soon.

Everything starts innocently enough. Brad proposes to Janet after they attend the wedding of two friends. It is only when they begin driving through a storm to visit Dr. Scott that things take a darker turn. Forced to seek shelter in a castle after their car blows a tire, the two are caught up in a carnival of carnal knowledge.

Incestuous domestics Riff Raff and Magenta tend house for the transsexual deviant mad scientist Frank N Furter. If Frank is not singing about something, he is having sex with someone - gender is no problem. (If this movie or its audience participation calls do not offend your sensibilities at some point, you are probably from California or New York City.)

Dr. Furter creates a man, er playtoy, and is busy admiring his future bedmate when who comes crashing out of the freezer? Meatloaf! Lucky for us rock fans a pick-wielding transvestite did not do him in. Even if it took twenty years for another album. (A sad correlation between the decline of rock n roll and chicks with, ahm, appendages?) Needless to say it is a short time before Frank has explored Rocky, Janet, and Brad.

Since Janet is wide awake after having sex with Frank, she goes tromping around the castle and notices her fiancee' relaxing after his encounter with their host. (Ugh, ugh.) What does she do? Oh, has sex with Rocky of course. Needless to say Frank is pissed, the arrival of Dr. Scott does not help matters. He is there to find Eddie, who was his nephew. (Small world huh?) All hands sit down to a nice, early morning dinner just before chaos breaks loose. Mainly on account that dinner is Eddie.

After turning his guests into stone (And apparently scrambling their brains.) Frank has just enough time to start the floor show, which involves everybody, and I mean everybody, wearing fishnets and dancing, before Riff finally loses it.

What seems like it would be a moderately amusing piece of bad cinema takes on a life of its own at midnight, in movie theaters across the country. Watching the movie in your home is okay, but seeing it in a dark theater full of hyper and sometimes inebriated fans gives one a whole new understanding. Ninety odd minutes of yelling the audience calls from, "Say hello Riff!" to "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Why the f**k does he have seven forks?" always left me sad to see the ending credits. The moral of this story? If you have not seen "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at midnight, in a theater full of freaks, you are missing out.

listen, I always thought it was a bizzare movie and I can't just sit and watch it. This thing is meant to be experienced physically, mentally, verbally, visually, orally, sexually (same thing), and above all you need to not take yourself seriously. It's meant to help you let youself go and not worry about dominant social ideology. It's even better when you're up there performing. Trust me. If you really don't dig it then go watch socially exceptable cinema...you know, that crap they've been churning out like...Agent Cody Banks...the sequel.

it's too bad that going to see this in the theater now is such an unpleasant experience, due to all the knowitall "fans" who yell new and mostly unfunny things throughout every second of the movie. you can't even hear the lines to respond to anymore.

and all these rebels, who always yell "F--- the rules" when told what they are by the theater, obey every last rule to the "T" after that. good little sheep.

the rocky horror picture show is my all time favourite movie, though i know it's not for everyone to like, i wouldn't say it's overrated. i think is brilliant, and it produced a huge sexual awakening.and as said in another post, im sure that all the actors and actresses in this movie, including amazing susan sarandon, are never ever going to regret o even question their choice to participate in this movie, since im sure, is going to be the most memorable they've ever donefrom argentina!

My ex-wife MADE me watch this "film" a number of years back. She used to go to the midnight showings in Trenton, NJ. She didn't get dressed up or anything but she did go. All in all, HORRIBLE MOVIE. Tim Curry was better in "Clue" or even "Congo". And I'll always think of Susan Sarandon in "Bull Durham".

I think I'd rather watch "Liquid Sky" than "Rocky Horror". (shivers up and down my spine)